Birthing YOUR Way, A Mindful Guide to Navigating Labor

Name: Birthing YOUR Way, A Mindful Guide to Navigating Labor
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Holistic Childbirth Education

Created byJessica Freedman

Last updated 8/2025

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What you'll learn

How to craft a personalized birth plan for your labor.
Understanding the stages of childbirth and labor.
Mindful movements, positions, and labor techniques to help baby descend with ease.
Partner advocacy and support through labor.
Central Nervous System Regulation for you and your birth team.

Course content

12 sections • 31 lectures • 4h 5m total length

Introduction2:48
Navigate labor with a mindful guide across hospital, home, and birth center settings, define your birthing values, advocate for yourself and partner, and communicate with providers to prevent traumatic birth.

Birth Preferences for Labor19:33
A checklist of important things to bring to your birth setting.Although some hospitals will have these, make sure to include an eyemask and earplugs, for those who are sensitive to sounds and bright lights.
Labor Nutrition Guide1:14
Because a well-fed body is a well-functioning body—and you deserve to feel steady, supported, and strong as you bring your baby earthside.
Let your birth begin with nourishment. Let’s fuel this journey—together.
Postpartum and Newborn Preferences11:56
Explore postpartum and newborn care options, including immediate vs delayed cord clamping, early skin-to-skin, first-hour care, placenta handling, rooming-in, and exclusive breastfeeding planning.
Unplanned or Emergent Cesarean Birth Preferences12:29
Understand the differences between emergent and unplanned cesarean births, and discuss risks, benefits, and timing with your provider. Prepare for a cesarean by planning partner presence and immediate skin-to-skin contact.

Labor Stages7:30
This section helps you understand the stages of labor and what to expect in each one. Everyone will have their own unique experience during childbirth, but you will have early labor, active labor, transition, and the phase where we release our baby, sometimes called the pushing phase. The third stage of labor is the delivery of the baby's placenta and the fourth stage is often referred to as the golden hour.
Baby's Fetal Station7:20
Did you know that your baby is doing JUST AS MUCH WORK during labor as you are? They are rotating and descending downward and they have some pretty tight spots to navigate. There are three bony levels of your pelvic they need to move down through before passing through your pelvic floor and tissues into your vaginal vault for their earthside appearance. Helping your baby through these levels will help them descend with more ease and once you know where baby is located (your birth team can tell you where baby is), you can do mindful movements to help them down.

Intro to Mindful Movement & Breathing1:43
Explore mindful movement and breathwork for labor across early, active, transition, and pushing stages. An 11-page printable guide helps you practice daily and bring these techniques to your birth setting.
Diaphragmatic breath for the “easy” contractions (0-4cm)3:12
Mindful Movements for Early Labor (Pelvic Inlet Engagement)20:04
Guide early labor through mindful movements to open the pelvic inlet and promote baby engagement around the sacral promontory, using cat-cow, pelvic tilts, child's pose, and supported squats.
Light accelerated breathing as the contraction sensations intensify (5-8cm)2:37
Practice light accelerated breathing during active labor (5–8 cm) with nasal inhale and strong exhale to focus inward, relax the jaw and shoulders, for about a minute.
Mindful Movement for Midpelvis Engagement10:18
Practice mindful movement for active labor to widen the mid pelvis with asymmetrical hip shifts, thoracic opening, and pelvic tilts using a birth ball or chair.
Transition Breathing for the challenging contractions (8-10cm)3:15
Learn transition breathing during the 8–10 cm contractions to turn inward, focus energy downward, and support the final rotation and pushing phase as the baby moves through the pelvis.
Mindful Movement for Transition Stage of Labor (Pelvic Outlet Engagement)9:04
Move mindfully through the transition phase to open the pelvic outlet with an anterior pelvic tilt and knees closer together using the Kiko method.
Breathing Baby Out Breath Techniques7:32
Positions for Birthing9:16
Explore mindful movement and alternative birthing positions, including tabletop, hands and knees, upright, sideline, and toilet, to use gravity, ease pelvic tissues, and aid baby’s descent.

Birth Partner - Introduction4:25
Learn how birth partner support benefits labor by regulating their nervous system and aligning on hands-on or hands-off care, with downloadable resources.
The 3 Balances6:19
Birth Partner Assists - Comfort Measures11:32
Explore partner-assisted comfort measures for labor, including sway, belly and hip sifting with rebozo, counter and sacral pressure, acupressure points, and foot massage to ease back pain and edema.
Birth Partner Assists - Helping baby engage12:40
Learn birth partner techniques to engage baby by opening pelvic inlet, mid pelvis, and pelvic outlet with hip squeezes, abdominal lift and tuck, grounding, and standing anterior pelvic tilt squats.

Guided Meditation for Birth Preparation11:39
Guided Imagery Meditation for Active Labor6:12
Practice guided imagery meditation for active labor, visualizing contractions as ocean waves while breathing from head to toe to relax, open the pelvic floor, and ease baby’s descent.
Ocean Meditation for Early Labor3:17
Practice the ocean wave breath for active labor to guide you through contractions, inhaling deeply through the nose, expanding your ribs and belly, and exhaling with an audible ocean wave.

Root & Rise: Pelvic Floor Prep for Pregnancy and Birth9:22
This prenatal yoga class is designed to help you connect with the wisdom and strength of your pelvic floor. Through mindful movement, breathwork, and targeted poses, you’ll learn how to tone, release, and balance the pelvic floor for birth and postpartum. Come explore your root—and rise into your power.
Bounce, Breathe, & Birth: Birth Ball Prep for Labor5:24
This fun and functional class uses the birth ball to support pelvic mobility, optimal baby positioning, and labor comfort techniques. Learn how to use your ball for balance, breath, and birth prep while building confidence in your body’s movement and rhythm.

Requirements

No experience needed.

Description

The Most Fun, Empowering & Affordable Online Childbirth Education Class Is HERE!

Ready to feel excited (not overwhelmed) about birth?
This course is everything you actually need to feel confident, prepared, and totally in your power—without the boring lectures, overpriced programs, or fear-based info.

Inside this joyful, judgment-free, and super affordable course, you’ll learn:

How birth really works (and how your baby is an active participant!)
How to create a birth plan that’s smart, flexible, and aligned with your values
Mindful movement + breath practices to ride the waves of labor with more ease
Coping tools, affirmations, and nervous system support to stay calm and centered
Partner-assisted comfort techniques that’ll have your birth team feeling like rockstars

We blend practical education with soulful preparation, so you and your partner feel empowered in your bodies, your choices, and your voice—whether this is your first baby or your fourth.

Plus, it’s designed to be taken on your schedule—fun, engaging videos, interactive exercises, and tools you can revisit any time you need a refresh.

You’ll walk away with real knowledge, real tools, and a real sense of "I’ve got this."
Perfect to start around 34 weeks—or whenever you’re ready to feel GOOD about giving birth.

Let’s make birth prep something you (and your partner) look forward to.
Because you deserve it—and your baby does too.

Who this course is for:

This course is intended for all families wishing to confidently prepare for their labor and childbirth experienc.
This course will help you understand your birthing rights and choices, how to confidently advocate for yourself and your partner, and how to have productive conversations with your provider and birth team.
Knowledge is power. The more empowered you become during pregnancy in preparation for birth, the less chance you will have at experiencing birthing trauma on your special day.

Birthing YOUR Way, A Mindful Guide to Navigating Labor

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Course content

Introduction1 lecture • 3min

Crafting a "Birth Plan" and why this is so important.4 lectures • 45min

Stages of Labor and Fetal Stations2 lectures • 15min

Making Empowered Labor Decisions with the BRAIN Acronym1 lecture • 5min

Mindful Movement and Breathwork for Labor9 lectures • 1hr 7min

Birth Partner Support4 lectures • 35min

Opening the Pelvic Levels with an Epidural using a Peanut Ball or Pillows1 lecture • 10min

Coping Techniques1 lecture • 15min

Positive Affirmations and Guided Meditation3 lectures • 21min

Mindful Movement and Exercise Classes for "Birth Preparation"2 lectures • 15min

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